State, County May Require Condoms in Adult Films | LA Times

[Ediacara]

State, County May Require Condoms in Adult Films

By Lisa Richardson and Caitlin Liu, Times Staff Writers

After almost a year of urging the adult-film industry to require actors to wear condoms during sex scenes, state and county officials say the recent HIV infection of two porn stars has given them the leverage they need to force change.

State and Los Angeles County health officials said Monday they believed existing regulations gave them the authority to require adult-film actors to use condoms, and the state Division of Occupational Health and Safety plans to begin inspections this week, marking the first time Cal/OSHA has investigated the adult-film industry.

Industry lawyers dispute the agency's legal authority, and some industry officials say pornographic movie production would move out of state if condom use were required.

Although a few California adult-film producers have voluntarily switched to condom-only productions, the majority of producers and distributors have balked at doing so. It is conventional wisdom within the multibillion-dollar industry — which employs more than 6,000 people in California, including about 1,200 performers — that using a condom doesn't pay.

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Uh.... I'm by no means an expert on porn, but I don't think I've ever seen modern porn without condoms... Although that may be because all the porn I've seen has been gay porn. Is a lack of condoms a straight porn hallmark?

[freetobegay]

1. The Adult Gay porn Industry has been doing this since

the mid 80's. At least all the one's I've seen.

[Ediacara]

2. that's what I thought

I guess I assumed that the straight porn industry would have done the same.... Stupid me, I guess some people still think AIDS is a gay disease....

[Gman]

3. I'm wondering how they will enforce this

And if the 9 o'clock news will have a story on the big bust on a porn movie set where "several male actors where found without condoms"!

[Sunny_Sunshine]

5. I gotta stop reading this stuff at work!

I'm getting a lot of weird looks from laughing out loud! This thought is going to have me giggling all day. "Several male actors were found without condoms" Oh my.

[cap]

4. ironically, maybe this might end up being a plug for..

responsible sex. Maybe people will connect the Oh...I'm hot and bothered...to the "Wait a minute, honey. I gotta get protection".

[Desperadoe]

6. But Shrub says............

that condoms don't prevent the spread of disease. Why are they now insisting on such failed prevention policies??

[oneighty]

7. Oh shoot.

180

[xchrom]

8. porn has broken out into ''bare backing''

gay porn especially -- sex scenes without condoms has become a cottage industry within porn.
{male}bi-sexual porn pretty much sticks to condom usage.
straight porn tends not to use condoms.
major porn houses go to extraordinary lengths to test people who appear in{straight} porn and have mostly done a great job at not exposing it's workers to hiv.